Word: waits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Porter arose once more, made a concession; said that the U. S. would agree to a 15-year period for the elimination of the opium scourge, would permit individual Governments to carry out the terms of the proposal; but he would not agree to wait until China had suppressed her opium production to an extent that would remove the smuggling danger. Upon that rock, the conference bumped its battered bows...
...They Wanted. One night last week, as the curtain was about to rise, a telegram was received saying that the President was coming to attend the play, but had been delayed in New Jersey. He was anxious to see the first act. Would it be too much trouble to wait a few minutes for him? For 30 minutes actors and audience waited. Then both became restive. Someone went out before the curtain and explained the situation, took a vote on whether the delay should be continued. The majority voted to wait. Another wait followed. Finally the performance went on without...
Another man suggested as a possibility was Amdassador Henry B. Fletcher, now at Rome. It was said, however, that Mr. Fletcher would rather wait an opportunity to go to Paris in case Ambassador Herrick retired. Besides, the President had intimated that he might go out of the diplomatic service in making a choice because the problems at Berlin were "more economic than diplomatic...
Brownies never wait...
...cold winter nights, outside the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, cabdrivers shuffle and swing their arms. It is dull for them. The people they have brought thither, wait to remove, are not even sports; they are music-lovers who give small tips, cold-eyed elegants in evening dress, or critics that ponder, as they read the meter, such terms as "a good performance, well sung," "gala night," "once more with a brilliant cast . . ." wishing to Heaven they could find a new phrase or change for a quarter. At regular intervals, the cabdrivers hear, from within, a prolonged rattling murmur which means...